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Elite on the BBC Micro and NES

Dashboard: ABORT

[6502 Second Processor version]

Name: ABORT [Show more] Type: Subroutine Category: Dashboard Summary: Disarm missiles and update the dashboard indicators
Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code Variations: See code variations for this subroutine in the different versions References: This subroutine is called as follows: * FRMIS calls ABORT * KILLSHP calls ABORT * Main flight loop (Part 3 of 16) calls ABORT

Arguments: Y The new status of the leftmost missile indicator
.ABORT LDX #&FF \ Set X to &FF, which is the value of MSTG when we have \ no target lock for our missile \ Fall through into ABORT2 to set the missile lock to \ the value in X, which effectively disarms the missile